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单词 stumblebum
释义

stumblebum

noun

stum·​ble·​bum ˈstəm-bəl-ˌbəm How to pronounce stumblebum (audio)
: a clumsy or inept person
especially : an inept boxer

Example Sentences

His political opponents have portrayed him as an inept stumblebum.
Recent Examples on the Web As opposed to palookas and has-beens and tin cans and stumblebums, a player who got waived departed with his dignity intact. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018 The physicians lining up with Teirstein are not a bunch of stumblebums afraid of a few tests. Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2015 From the mid-1960s through the early ’70s, my prime rooting years, the Yankees were a team of stumblebums not even redeemed by charm. James Traub, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017 Gerald Ford, for all his stumblebum image, was a Yale Law School graduate and veteran of legislative details. James Fallows, The Atlantic, 20 July 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1932, in the meaning defined above

stumblebum

noun

1
as in palooka

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as in fumbler

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